This video isn’t what you might think—unlike some animals, male hares don’t battle each other for female attention.

These three mountain hares tussling in the Scottish snow may look like two males fighting over a female. Not so fast.

“I don’t see testicles, so it’s hard to judge—but usually when you see behavior like that, it’s females rejecting the sexual advances of a male,” says Dana Krempels, a biologist at Florida’s University of Miami. “And I’m suspecting that there are two males here competing for her attention.”

It’s important to note that the male hares, or jacks, don’t usually fight each other. Jacks normally spar only with female hares, or jills. This sparring is pretty gentle compared to the more aggressive behavior of some of their rabbit relatives. (Read “What's the Difference Between Rabbits and Hares?”)

Krempels says that the jill in the above video, which was published on YouTube on Thursday, might be fending off the jacks because she’s not ready—hares typically mate in the spring and summer. In the fall, jacks’ testicles recede and they lose interest in mating. But their testicles can drop soon after the winter solstice, sometimes leading them to pursue a mate well before spring.